STRONG MAN

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Show days were bittersweet. Mounds of paperwork, promotional shots and organizing twenty or so grown men could get to a person. So when Jordan found a chance to sit down, she took it. Jumping up onto one of the equipment cases, she sat back and rested against a concrete wall. The entire situation was still hard to take in. Her team, MutantX, were suddenly back in her life (well, had been for several weeks, now). It was so strange to watch them interact with the wrestlers, and though she knew better, part of her always saw that their secrets were waiting to explode. It was hard enough keeping her own while dealing with Vince and the roster, and the long bouts without using her elemental powers were difficult, to say the least. Closing her eyes, the regenerative exhaled at all the juggling in her life.

"Sleeping on the job…you're trying to get fired."

The woman smiled before opening one eye. A slender brow arched at the man inviting himself to sit down beside her. "How long you been there?"

"Not long." Edge smirked. "I ran into your friend earlier."

"Who, Lex?" The woman replied with still closed eyes. "What's she doing?"

"Being nosy. She asked about you working here and how we met."

"Sounds like her." Jordan smirked. "I bet she's up to something…"

For the moment he took her in, his green eyes slowly scanning the honey colored skin, angular face and wavy black hair. The wheels in his mind turned with so many questions. Leaning forward to rest his elbows to knees, he spoke. "Your friends don't know, do they?"

"Know what?" She replied almost amused.

"That you told me about Mutant X." It was then that her eyes opened and the man could see he'd been right. Jordan began to scoot forward, so she could sit up. "They don't know that I know about Adam, Vince- you."

Her dark eyes flashed at him before the woman stood. "Edge, you're the only person I've told about my –mutancy."

"Here." He added. "I'm the only person you've told in the WWE. I'll be honest. I didn't really believe your stories at first. I mean living in a rock? People with strange powers, organizations either trying to kill or control you."

"LOWER- your voice." She gasped, even though there was no one in the hallway."And I know you didn't believe me. The only time you did was when I explained about –you."

"You mean me being feral." He smirked.

"Yes. I saw the looks on your face when I told you 'things'. The only time you believed me was when I proved things about you. Even when I showed you my powers, you questioned it."

His height had him looking down at her with an unreadable expression. Jordan folded her arms, and moved to speak before he held up his hand. "I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to be sorry for. You reacted just like everyone else who finds out 'why' their so different."

"I understand that. But, when you knocked on my door the other night and told me you were going to bring them here- to RAW, I thought you'd lost it." Edge remembered that night. Jordan had got a call, and left the show early only to wind up outside hishotelroom at three in the morning. A few days later, she was introducing Brennan and Shalimar to Vince as wrestlers.

The woman grinned before pulling on his shirt. "You were pissed cause I wasn't there for 'something else'…"

"You're always disappointing me there." He smirked. "At least I finally met THE 'Brennan Mulwray'."

"And…"

"…He's not so great."

"Whatever! I have to go find Dave. Have you seen him?"

"In the gym." The blonde replied. "I'll walk you."

All he knew was that men had to apologize (even if they were right) and that had Brennan walking the halls. He'd been looking for Shalimar when his favorite molecular strode up.

"Sparky."

"Hey, Jess…you seen Shal?"

The molecular frowned up. "Not today. Why? What's up?"

"We got into it."

"Must have been serious." Jesse exhaled. "About what?"

"Take a guess."

"Oh." The younger man pushed his hands into his pockets. This was becoming a little too common. Lately, every conversation Brennan and Shalimar had was only about Hunter and Jordan. "Man, I'm sorry you two have it so rough."

"Y'know, I could deal with this if it was just Hunter hitting on her. But she's attracted to him! And he's a big ass feral!"

"C'mon, Brennan. She wouldn't do that. You two have been through everything together. I don't really think she'd throw it away on – hormonal attraction."

"Yeah, I used to think that, too." The dark- haired man paused before looking around. "…I bet she's in the gym."

"I'll go with you." Jesse grinned. "She always softens up around me."

"That's cause you're a wimp." He chuckled as they entered the room. "But seriously, I don't want…" Jesse looked up from the machine he'd been toying with when Brennan stopped. Blue eyes narrowed at the taller man, who now stood in the walkway.

"What, Brennan?" The molecular said beforegoing over. He moved to speak again but froze. Beside him, the elemental was fuming. His heart and anger blasted to a million pieces. "…Oh, shit…" Jesse exhaled, his eyes showing him the very thing he knew to doubt. With all their feral hearing and senses, he'd thought the two would have known they were coming. But they didn't- or just didn't care. The crackling in his teammates knuckles snappedhim back.

They made out conspicuously, like he wasn't even there.

"SHALIMAR!"

"Brennan!" The woman pulled from Hunter. Disbelieving that they'd been caught, she'd known part of the rush was that they would be. And Hunter made no apologies. He moved between her and the advancing Brennan, a cocky smirk on his face. But she knew better and Triple H just couldn't see what was coming.

"Too bad, junior. Your-" He flew back as volts of electricity seized into his stomach. The elemental didn't want to stop, even if it took all of him. Coils raged from his hands, thankful to be released.

"Brennan!" Shalimar yelled again. He chose to ignore her.

Jesse tried to step in. "Brennan! You're gonna kill him!"

"…I know."

She knew that sound- that crackling and judging by how close they were, she didn't have much time. Whistling to Lexa, who'd just passed in the hall, the former team member gestured for her to follow.

"My God!" She exhaled as Brennan fed Hunter full of currents. Even with his feral DNA, the man wouldn't last long.

"What the hell!" Edge gasped.

"Close the door!" Jordan said as Lexa slid in. The man said nothing before shutting the entrance.

"Shit!" The brunette replied, her blue eyes wide. "What do we do?"

"Brennan!" Jesse gasped when finally grabbing his arm. Knowing his teammate wasn't thinking at all, the molecular massed just in case any volts came his way. The added weight took him down, bringing a struggling elemental to the floor. "Brennan!" He tried again when returning back to flesh. "Brennan calm down!"

"Help him." Lexa ran over to the men as her friend did to Hunter, Shalimar kneeling beside him.

"He's breathing!" The blonde managed. Jesse and Lexa finally had Brennan contained and moved him to stand. Jordan held out her hands, a bluish light forming near the wound in Hunter's stomach. Suddenly, the elemental took offense.

Brennan broke from his teammates and advanced on the regenerative. Her powers had barely begun to work when the man snatched her back. "Don't help him!"

Lexa and Jesse watched as he grabbed the woman by both arms. The moleculars exchanged glances. One's fist massed while the other's created a small solar charge.

"Brennan! Let go!" She gasped while struggling with him. Knowing how easily he was stronger than her, the woman tried desperately to dance around her option- the only option. But he was blinded by anger and still disbelieving, till sight of Shalimar stroking 'that' man's face flooded him.

"Brennan!" The regenerative elemental gasped. "Please. -" The man cut her off with a brutal kiss, all intentions of hurt and revenge centered at Shalimar. He didn't have to look to see her eyes go feral or hear the jealousy curling in her throat. With both hands on his chest, Jordan tried desperately to pull back. But her ex didn't care. Shalimar felt the effects of her own actions and that was what he wanted. He'd expected it.

What he didn't expect was Edge.

Jordan broke from Brennan just as the blonde lunged at him. His shoulder connected with the elemental's stomach, sending him into a nearby weight bench. Jesse wasted no time in getting between the brawling men.

"Get off me, man!" Brennan nearly cursed, his inhibitions starting to return.

"Keep your hands off her!" The feral spat. Edge pulled back, but before he could say a word, Shalimar was up.

"You bitch!" She growled before lunging at Jordan. They went down with a crash, rolling around on the floor. Between slaps and hair pulling, Lexa and Jesse attempted yet again to break up the fight. A sudden blast of fire had the feral falling back a safe distance. Now it was Jordan who lunged at her, sending the woman into the wall. Jesse finally got an arm between them before semi- flinging Jordan to the others.

"What? You have to cheat with your flame throwing?" Shalimar spat.

"You don't want me to out fight you!" The regenerative said. "Bring it, bitch!"

"Stop it!" Lexa snapped as she held Jordan back. Jesse had both arms around Shalimar and was barely keeping her away. Both women breathed heavy with anger. "Jess, take her out. And you calm down!" She directed at Jordan. "You have to heal Hunter and Brennan." Keeping an arm around her friend, she turned back to Edge.

"Make sure no one's coming!"

The brunette held onto Jordan till Jesse had Shalimar on the other side of the room. Slowly, she released her friend who calmed down a little more before going back to Hunter. The bluish light conjured between her fingers as she went to work.

"Shal, what the hell happened?" Jesse asked. "Why were you kissing Hunter?

"Kissing Hunter?" Lexa gasped after walking over. "No wonder Brennan fried him!"

"I don't KNOW why! Brennan and I had a fight and I just left to cool off. I came in, Hunter and Dave were here; we talked. Then Dave left."

"So you two were alone?" The brunette gasped. "Shal, you already said he affected you-"

"Yeah! I know what I said, all right! And I did want to leave. -"

" 'Wanting' to and 'leaving' are two different things."

"Shut up, Lex." She muttered.

Jesse shook his head before interrupting. "Shal, Brennan was coming to find you. He wanted to apologize and he walks in on you and Hunter making out!" The blonde looked past her 'brother' to the elemental, who now stood up holding his ribs. He leaned against the wall, eyes closed and steadying his breath.

"…I should talk to him."

"Whoa! Not now!" Lexa replied. "Give him space. Go walk it off- then talk later."

"She's right." Jesse added. " Get through your matches then talk at the hotel. It'll be out of your system by then."

"…And let him stay here with Jordan?" She shrieked.

"Shal, don't worry about Jordan. Edge will take care of her." Lexa said. "She's not the problem here, you are."

The feral gave her a serious look of warning before moving to leave. "What about Hunter?"

Jesse put a hand on her shoulder before leading the woman into the hall. "We'll take care of him too."

Jordan finally had Hunter healed and was helping him get up when he caught sight of Brennan. "Whoa! Hold it!" She said into his ear as the man moved forward. "Hunter, right now, I need you to calm down."

"Calm down! Did you see what he did to me? ME!"

"I did, and I'll take care of it. But I need you to continue the show like nothing happened here." She nearly warned. "You know how Vince is about fighting. Do you really want him in this?" The large man groaned (his normal thing for agreeing when he didn't want to). Jordan patted him on the shoulder before walking to the door. "Go to your dressing room-"

"You better fix this, Jordan." Triple H groaned. "If you don't, I will. And he will 'stay' fixed." She gestured Edge over to them.

"Make sure he gets to his match, please."

"No problem…what about you? Are you all right?"

"Like a girl fight's gonna keep me down." The woman replied. "I enjoyed it almost as much as you did." His guilty grin was too much as she walked back into the room. Jesse was the only one with Brennan.

"Where's Lex?"

"She thought Shal needed a bodyguard." The molecular grinned. "How about your World Heavyweight Champion?"

"I sent him off with Edge." She exhaled before turning to Brennan. "How you feelin'?"

"Like I got hit by a truck."

"That's his signature." She nearly grinned. "He calls it the Spear. Breaks you in half."

"No shit." The elemental smirked as he sat down.

"Do I even want to know how this started?"

"Not really." Jesse interrupted. He stood back, watching as the regenerative placed a hand to Brennan's stomach. Through his ripped shirt, they could see the bruises on his torso begin to fade. Soon, he was up stretching.

"J, I really am sorry- about everything." He managed while hugging the woman.

"Don't worry about it. Just set these machines back up before you leave out. Leave no evidence, remember?"

Jesse smirked at her remark. "One of Adam's first rules."